Monday, December 05, 2016

Christmas Sambo

Sittingbourne Open Sambo Christmas Tournament

Medal Winners

On Saturday December 3rd BSF National Coach John Clarke
organised a Sittingbourne Open Sambo Competition. He allowed players who did
not have Sambo kit to wear Judo/Kurash equivalent to try and encourage those
who do not do the Sport on a regular basis

The turnout was relatively small and sadly we only had one
Female entry. Women Sambo throughout the World Is very popular but we just cannot
drum up the interest in GB for women competitors.

Russia Lithuania Latvia

The entire turnout was small
we did attract players from Latvia, Russia and Lithuania. One of the Juniors Julius
Vaisvila flew in from Lithuania to compete in this event and he was superb
demolishing every one before him. Strange how some can fly in from another
country yet those who live locally cannot be bothered support local events

Although the event was small it
produced some excellent Sambo from all participants including the boys event.
What was encouraging was that many arm locks and leg locks were used, these
have always been a weak point with British Fighters so it was encouraging to
see them being used

John will be running many more of these
small events in Sambo and Judo at the Swale Martial Arts Club Sittingbourne
over 2017. Also at the Club in February we will be running a Combat Wrestling
and Belt Wrestling Championships both of these styles are Non Jacket wrestling
forms. Combat Wrestling is a mixture of Sambo/Judo/Freestyle Wrestling and Belt
Wrestling is where you hold the Belt to try and throw each The Clubs main
interest is Sambo and Judo but we recognise the benefits of trying other
grappling sports. We are looking into trying a Chinese Jacket Style very
similar to Judo called Shuai Jiao

In June next Year we hope to run a
Major Event at the Swallows featuring Sambo Judo and Combat Wrestling and lets
not forget we are sending a Coach from the club to the British Sambo
Championships in Birmingham in March and IBF Multi Nation Judo Tournament in
Belgium in May

Any one interested in what we do they
can contact us at ibfbcsa@gmail.com http://www.britishsombo.co.uk/